(Photo by Chris Bates)This very ornate station (which is
a grade 2 listed building) is a magnificent red brick structure,with Dutch gables, stone finials, and tall
stone mock-Tudor style chimneys.It stands remote from any dwellings, being
built in the nineteenth centuryfor the former Earl of Yarborough, resident
at Brocklesby Hall(some two miles to the south-east).The station is now closed and the building
is a private residence.

Chris Bates says of Brocklesby "My
father
went to work at Brocklesbysignal box in 1955 and even then there were
few stopping trains and even fewer passengers– I remember going with my mother to take
him a Sunday lunch one day in 1955 or 1956,travelling there behind a K2 2-6-0. Even a
walk down the country lanes to andfrom the station showed little of interest
– my mother having refused to live in nearbyUlceby and insisting on setting up home in
Grimsby."

Here in 1981 a Sheffield-bound Derby
heavyweight
finds no passengers waiting as it calls.

(Photo by Chris Bates)View of the splendid mock Elizabethan
station house and private waiting roomsfor Lord Yarborough– the station house, though
occupied by a PW ganger andhis family, was in a shocking state of
disrepair
by this time.

(Photo by Chris Bates)It was along time since any member of the
landed gentry(or anyone else)had used this private waiting
room onBrocklesby – but the building still stands.

(photo - Peter Enefer)A Metro-Cammel 2 car dmu pauses at Brocklesby
station en route for Cleethorpes in 1988.The junction to the left goes to Ulceby
Junction
for New Holland or Immingham.